Microsoft's AI CEO has a cozy relationship with the man who used to be his rival, he said on Tuesday.

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In the post-COVID world, VCs say it’s not as easy to get excited about investing in digital health. Deal activity in healthcare IT was relatively flat in Q1 2024 at 74 total deals, valued at about $1 billion total, up only 3% from the year-ago quarter, according to PitchBook data.  Still, promising startups have grabbed […]

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Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized […]

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Giving robots a human-like exterior has been the standard for years — centuries even. But giving them actual, living skin that can be manipulated horrifying, slimy expressions? That’s new. The new work, published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, is very much just an experiment. This will not be the face of your next […]

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In May, when OpenAI first demoed a far more realistic, nearly-real-time conversational experience for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, called advanced Voice Mode, the company said that the capability would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs more time. In a post on OpenAI’s official […]

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GM’s Cruise has appointed Marc Whitten — a video game veteran who was a founding engineer at Xbox and Xbox Live— as CEO.  The Cruise CEO position has been vacant since December when co-founder Kyle Vogt resigned as part of a broader executive shakeup following an October 2 incident that saw one its robotaxis drag […]

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You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, where the companies jointly announced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s operating systems for iPhone, […]

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VW Group invest $1 billion into EV startup Rivian as part of a software development deal that could expand to as much as $5 billion. The deal, which was announced Tuesday afternoon, sent Rivian’s shares up more than 36% in after-hours trading. The two companies will create a joint venture focused on next-generation electrical architecture […]

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Fearless Fund’s cofounder and COO Ayana Parsons has announced that she was stepping down. The firm is being sued by a politically conservative group.

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Reddit says the update shouldn't affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Internet Archive.

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An MSI product sheet and leaked GPU-Z screenshot point to a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super with the AD102 silicon. It shouldn't affect performance as it has the same specifications, but the larger die could help with cooling.

For headless operation of your Raspberry Pi or access when away from its location, the updated Raspberry Pi Connect service now supports older boards and remote shell access.

Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly being regurgitated by the music models.

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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at a Brex exec’s jump to join venture firm a16z, Klarna selling off its payments unit and some mega-raises. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story Ali Rathod-Papier […]

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Instagram’s Twitter/X rival Threads is furthering its expansion into the fediverse — the interconnected social network that includes apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, and others running the ActivityPub protocol. On Tuesday, Meta announced that it’s now opening up its beta for sharing to the fediverse to Threads users who are 18 and up and who are […]

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AMD's flagship MI300X super AI GPU was tested in Geekbench 6, posting the fastest ever result in an increasingly meaningless GPU benchmark. It's 19% faster than Nvidia's RTX 4090, which in turn beats the H100 PCIe by 13%. This is clearly just for 'fun' as Geekbench 6 isn't designed to evaluate enterprise-grade AI GPUs.

Crucial's T700 SSD is a Gen 5 drive with hyperfast read/write speeds of 12400/11800MB/s and is now at its lowest-ever price.

As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an opt-in experiment offering access to different AI services in Nightly, the experimental version of Firefox. The company plans to improve the experience before bringing it to […]

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Smart ring makers Oura and Circular Tuesday announced a settlement in an ongoing patent suit. The agreed-upon terms find the French company entering into a multi-year agreement with Oura, wherein it will license the market leader’s intellectual property for devices sold in the U.S. Financial details of the agreement have been kept confidential. Oura has […]

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Qualcomm's flagship Snadragon X Elite X1E-84-100 is on par with M2 in single-thread workloads and with Apple's M4 in multi-thread workloads in PassMark.

The new addition was inspired by the video-sharing activity that was already taking place on apps like TikTok.

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Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have injected fresh capital into Stability, the company revealed Tuesday morning […]

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London-based internet rights monitoring group NetBlocks has reported a major internet disruption in Kenya following a wave of demonstrations across the country, as police violently cracked down on citizens taking to the streets to protest a government bill to hike taxes despite tough economic times and widespread corruption. The interruption in access comes as the […]

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AMD reveals that unnamed individuals are seriously considering building an AI "supercluster" with over a million AI GPUs.

Companions can appear on the left or right side of the Start menu. Third party developers make them.

Pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies are the number one consumers of this tech, but other industries are taking notice.

Waymo no longer has a waitlist for its San Francisco robotaxi service, removing the final obstacle for customers keen to use the self-driving technology.  Waymo said Tuesday that anyone can download the app and then immediately hail one of its robotaxis in San Francisco — a move that mimics the Alphabet-owned company’s strategy in Phoenix, […]

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The new NZXT H7 Flow’s design has undergone some changes, adding room for more fans and a new mesh front panel.

Popular productivity tool, Notion, has long allowed its users to make any of their pages public. Now, the company is expanding on this with the launch of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. For the most part, these are pretty straightforward, but together, they do make for a more […]

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Investors, you know you need to keep your pipelines primed, and one of the best places to find early-stage startups with promising portfolio potential is, you guessed it, TechCrunch Disrupt. TechCrunch is here to help. Let’s take a look at all the ways you can pump up your pipeline at Disrupt and keep the deals […]

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Payabli builds the infrastructure that allows companies, specifically software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through APIs.

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Patreon, the paid membership platform for creators, announced Tuesday the release of new features designed to help creators monetize their non-paying followers and tap into new revenue streams. This includes the ability to sell individual posts, a gifting feature for fans to gift limited-time subscriptions, and promotional tools for sharing clips on social media.   The […]

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Google is rolling out a new Gemini AI side panel in Gmail that can help you write emails and summarize email threads. The company is also adding the Gemini side panel to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The launch of the new features comes shortly after Google announced them last month at its I/O developer […]

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iPhone mirroring, one of the more notable features arriving in Apple’s upcoming operating systems, is now available to developers testing the beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The latest beta releases include support for mirroring your iPhone directly on the Mac, so you can use your phone on your computer, including launching and […]

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OneDrive backup and syncing becomes an opt-out feature for Windows 11.

Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It is a software-as-service tool that helps companies handle public tenders at scale — a bit like Govly in the U.S. Originally created within the startup studio Hexa, the startup raised a €3 million funding round led by Point Nine ($3.2 million at today’s […]

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Smashing is an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta.

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The Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL is a low-profile wireless gaming keyboard with updated low-profile switches and access to Logitech's new KEYCONTROL multi-layer keymapping, and a much more budget-friendly build.

Tom Fox has created a capacitive touch sensor using a Raspberry Pi Pico that makes use of all 26 pins with his custom PCB he calls Spoke.

Intel's latest-generation mobile CPUs are expected to launch in September, with leaked specifications suggesting just how powerful and capable they might be.

This error occurs when, as its name says, an important process crashes. Here’s how to diagnose and fix it.

Wisk Aero, a subsidiary of Boeing, has acquired Verocel, a software verification and validation company with 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry.  Wisk has an autonomous-first approach to eVTOL. The company’s Generation 6 aircraft, which is slated to begin airborne tests this year, is designed to be supervised by humans, but not physically […]

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In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group, or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train models without permission. The issue is, of course, that there’s still no clear framework on what constitutes copyright violation in the context of training GenAI. While these cases […]

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Coder's open-source software has around 1.2 million monthly active users, and Dropbox, Discord and Skydio are among the company's paying customers.

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Leveraging large languge models, Jobright created an AI agent that acts as a headhunter tailored to individual job seekers.

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k-ID's platform makes it easy for game devs to comply with child safety and data privacy regulations.

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Learn how to diagnose and fix KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED errors in Windows.

A relatively new startup called EvolutionaryScale has secured a massive tranche of cash to build AI models to generate novel proteins for scientific research. EvolutionaryScale today announced that it raised $142 million in a seed round led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Lux Capital with participation from Amazon and NVentures, Nvidia’s corporate […]

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Don't call this company a "ghost kitchen." Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability.

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Ashley Beckwith spent years of her academic and professional career focused on the intersection of biology, materials and manufacturing to build medical solutions more efficiently. When she realized the tech could be applied to plants and plant-based materials, an area that desperately needed it, she decided to switch gears. “Life on earth is only as […]

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As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously. Nvidia in particular, which commands an estimated 70% to 95% of the market for AI chips, wields massive influence. Cloud providers from Meta to Microsoft are spending billions of dollars on Nvidia GPUs, wary of […]

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Less than a year after closing its seed round, software-for-hardware startup Sift announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV to scale their platform for analyzing real-time data from hardware systems. The company is developing a platform that provides a single source of truth for telemetry data. Such data is […]

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The acquisition allows Swipewipe's founder to take some money off the table while also continuing to benefit financially from his work via an ongoing revenue-sharing agreement with MWM.

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As of today, nearly all of the world’s most popular website homepages are not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

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Uber Freight and Aurora Innovation have announced a multi-year collaboration that will see Aurora’s autonomous driving technology offered on the Uber Freight network through 2030.  The deal gives Aurora access to shipping customers as it prepares to launch its fully driverless commercial service later this year. It also helps Aurora also secure longer-term customers through […]

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The European Union accused Microsoft of breaching competition rules Tuesday. In a formal statement of objections the bloc said it suspects the software giant of abusing antitrust rules by bundling its real-time comms and collaboration tool, Teams, with popular productivity apps, including its cloud-based suites for businesses Office 365 and Microsoft 365. The EU opened […]

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Snapchat on Tuesday announced a new suite of safety features, including updates to its account blocking functionality and enhanced friending safeguards, making it difficult for strangers to contact users on its platform. The new move comes amid concerns over predators exploiting teens on social media apps, which often results in severe incidents, including sextortion. One […]

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Rocketlane initially aimed to support customer onboarding. However, it has broadened its scope and doubled down on addressing the needs of professional services teams.

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Yelp is rolling out an app update to include more accessibility identifiers for businesses, improved screen-reader experiences, and AI-powered alt-text for images. The company said that from 2020 to 2023, there has been an average rise of 40% in searches for “wheelchair accessible” places. With the new update, the company is adding eight more attributes […]

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The firm said on Friday that it will source talent who can solve health problems like depression, cancer, eczema and neurodegenerative diseases.

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The most urgent moments of the Covid-19 pandemic may be in the past, but the need for fast and secure ways to send valuable, fragile medicines and their components around the world is still very current. SkyCell has developed hardware and software to run that transport process better — and greener, it says — than […]

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Pennylane, Qonto, Agicap, Pleo and Mollie have one thing in common. They all use Chift in one way or another to manage integrations with other services. And this relatively young Belgium-based startup just raised a €2.3 million seed round ($2.5 million at today’s exchange rate). Many fintech startups rely on integrations to make their product […]

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Amazon said today that its annual Prime Day sales event will take place on July 16 and 17.

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Days after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple and Meta were in talks to integrate the latter’s AI models, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that the iPhone maker was not planning any such move. Apple held talks with Meta about the possibility of a partnership when it was also talking with other companies. However, the […]

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TechWolf has built an AI engine that ingests data from internal workflows to learn about the people doing that work.

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Julian Assange is free after being granted bail by the High Court in London, Wikileaks said on X. This is the result of a plea deal with the U.S. The Wikileaks founder is now said to have left the U.K. for Australia, his home country. This comes after a long-winded legal battle that saw Assange […]

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The Gurugram-based startup works with Indian factories to help them manufacture fashion wear for global brands.

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. It’s becoming a habit to open each TechCrunch Space newsletter with a bit of an update on Boeing’s Starliner mission, so bear with me. Per NASA officials, the spacecraft will now return its two-person crew to Earth no earlier than June 26, instead of the originally planned date […]

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The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized […]

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Arnov Sharma has created a Raspberry Pi-powered PC that is completely portable thanks to it's integrated battery pack.

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov says his company only employs around 30 engineers. Security experts say that raises serious questions about the company's cybersecurity.

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Geekbench results for another Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 engineering sample have been found, and the results are promising: Strix Point is hitting 4.8 GHz and beating the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D in Geekbench.

Join us for Let's Learn .NET Aspire, a global live stream workshop where you can learn all about what .NET Aspire is, why you would use it, and see how to integrate .NET Aspire into your apps with a hands on workshop.

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Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the former head of global AI solutions at IBM’s research division, today emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding from Learn Capital plus credit lines totaling more […]

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A small and compact gaming laptop from HP, the Omen Transcend 14 comes with an RTX 4070 GPU and OLED display - now with $300 knocked off of the MSRP.

OpenAI is on an M&A tear. Days after acquiring database tech firm Rockset, OpenAI has purchased Multi (previously Remotion), a startup developing a enterprise-focused, video-first collaboration platform. A source familiar with the matter says that the deal is technically an acquihire and that most of Multi’s team — around five people — will join OpenAI […]

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Possible launch dates of Intel's next-generation Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs have been revealed in a leak.

It may not be as powerful as your smartphone, but this UPMC is on the right track

Intel reportedly readies Arrow Lake-H CPU for laptops based on 24-core silicon aimed at desktops.

Car dealerships and auto shops around the U.S. enter a second week of disruption following cyberattacks at software maker CDK.

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Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, his new startup that promises to turn your table scraps into planet-saving treasure. Mill burst out of the gate last year after spending some time in stealth refining its waste bin, an easy to […]

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Google announced on Monday that it’s bringing its AI technology Gemini to teen students using their school accounts, after having already offered Gemini to teens using their personal accounts. The company is also giving educators access to new tools alongside this release. Google says that giving teens access to Gemini, can help prepare them with the […]

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LG has announced the successful beginning of mass production for its first Tandem OLED display. The 13-inch 2880x1800 pixel touchscreen display will see use in Dell XPS 13 laptops first, unique for its stacking of two light-emitting layers which together increase brightness and decrease power consumption.

Shopify merchants can now sell their items to Target’s millions of shoppers, thanks to a new partnership. The companies announced on Monday that sellers on the commerce platform can apply to join Target Plus, the retail giant’s third-party marketplace where merchants can sell and manage orders. Target is the first major retailer to collaborate with […]

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A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to […]

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Mixhalo Translate couples the startup’s ultra-low latency in-person streaming with AI-generated audio translations.

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The team at iFixit have bought their Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, and promptly disassembled them to show how repairable the latest tablet and laptop are.

Yelp is rolling out an app update to include more accessibility identifiers for businesses, improved screen-reader experiences, and AI-powered alt-text for images. The company said that from 2020 to 2023, there has been an average rise of 40% in searches for “wheelchair accessible” places. With the new update, the company is adding eight more attributes […]

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Major investor Prosus has written off its 9.6% stake in Indian edtech firm Byju’s to zero, signaling a loss of confidence in the once-promising startup. Prosus, the largest external investor in Byju’s, disclosed the adjustment in its assessment of Byju’s worth on Monday. Prosus wrote off the startup “due to the significant decrease in value […]

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Vinod Khosla is more popular than ever right now. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor — first at Kleiner Perkins and, for the last 20 years, at his venture firm Khosla Ventures — has always been sought after by founders thanks to his no-nonsense advice and his firm’s track record, including bets on Stripe, […]

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After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports English and no other local languages. The company started testing Meta AI in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook in April by rolling it out […]

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We’re at a transitional moment in streaming — user growth is slowing and major players are looking to consolidate, but the long-promised dream of profitability finally seems within reach (especially if you’re Netflix). The perfect time, then, for The New York Times to interview many of the industry’s big names — including Netflix co-CEO Ted […]

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A PC is built into a giant case fan and operates as it spins violently.

Nvidia to supply AI GPUs to Ooredoo, a telecom giant that operates in six Middle East countries.

Machenike's 2nd ever Kickstarter promises a see-through mechanical keyboard with a delightful look and a host of features, shipping with everything but the kitchen sink (or a numpad).

Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within technology.

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We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs to select the best graphics cards for gaming. These graphics cards offer the best performance at their price and resolution, from 1080p to 4K.

If all goes to plan, Europeans will be able to download and use a free EU Digital Identity Wallet to access a wide range of public and private services.

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AMD's upcoming Strix Halo APU, never confirmed but seen in shipping records and other leaks, has been spotted again in trade data: now with 128GB of RAM and 120W TDP.

You can buy the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 processor over at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date - just $246 instead of its recommended $329.

Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Windforce Max OC comes with a huge cooler and power connector placed in a curious position.

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.

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As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, Apple said it would be partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into the revamped version of Siri. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta are in talks […]

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Semantic entropy is when we use words that have multiple meanings, thus leading to confusion. The researchers want to use this as a way to estimate the chance that an AI is hallucinating.

Microsoft Defender marks text files containing 'This content is no longer available.' as a Trojan horse and severe threat.

18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

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Microsoft posted an official guide on converting your Windows 11 PC login credentials from a Microsoft Account to a local account. But then it changed its mind, and decided that it is not a good idea to give users these instructions.

Nvidia didn't make the list of the top 100 most recognizable brands in the world.

The HighPoint Rocket 1608A is a new, PCIe 5.0 add-in-card that allows you to boost storage performance with up to eight SSDs in tandem. It’s super fast for the right workloads, if you need that kind of performance.

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, alongside Jan Leike, was integral to OpenAI’s efforts to […]

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Really, X should have learned its lesson by now.

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Phoenix Technologies is the latest to report buffer overflow into arbitrary code execution, which was made possible through a widespread exploit on several generations of Intel CPUs, with or without TPM support.

OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand.

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To expand its Hard Drive Circularity Program and reduce electronic waste, Seagate is now selling its refurbished and recertified mechanical hard drives through eBay for attractive prices.

Charlette N'Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the global South.

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Journalists understand the basic structure of the deals, but they still have questions. 

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Larry's Workbench is using a Raspberry Pi to power his custom rover bot, which is voice-activated and very sassy, thanks to Chat GPT.

The human brain has long been a subject of fascination for art and science, which are now both mixed into “Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky,” a new live interactive experience to the tune of Pink Floyd. Interactivity is optional, but memorable. Exhibition visitors can opt in (and pay extra) to have their brain […]

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Jensen Huang revealed his vision for DLSS's future. He envisions DLSS generating in-game assets and NPCs from scratch.

The Asus TUF VG249Q1R gaming monitor is currently available at Newegg for just $99, one of its lowest prices to date.

Although Microsoft quietly discontinued 'Project Natick,' its undersea data center returned excellent results. Throughout the experiment, 0.7% of servers failed, compared to 5.9% on land.

When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and 2022, many people thought his fortunes, and his way of investing, had peaked, just like 2021’s memestock craze had. Xu doesn’t agree, though, and he’s now building a startup for […]

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Developers can now use Qualcomm's AI models to build their AI apps.

Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs and several subsidiaries were banned from U.S. operations on Thursday, and customers had 100 days to find an alternative. The U.S. also sanctioned 12 executives.

Hong Kong Customs intercepted the smuggling of $1.5 million in Intel Xeon processors in secret compartments of a private car.

The Open Source Initiative is trying to address the debate stirring around the notion of "open-source AI."

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Hardware tester David Huang received an engineering sample of the Ryzen AI 9 365 and ran a couple of benchmarks on it.

We've tested four different CPUs and GPUs, spanning the past seven years of PC hardware, to show how different upgrade paths can perform. If you're still using an older system, we'll provide benchmarks of 16 different hardware configurations to help you plan your next upgrade.

The U.S. is close to finalizing rules to restrict investments in China, but there will be exceptions.

VKD3D Proton updates to Version 2.13 to improve high-end Linux gaming via Proton.

The Keychron Q1 HE is a 75-percent keyboard with magnetic Hall Effect switches, a full aluminum chassis, and low-latency 2.4GHz wireless connectivity.

Is a difference of 2 or 3 hours a real game-changer?

Some AIs bypass robots.txt protocol, perhaps risking lawsuits.

AI titans Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly had a standoff over what server racks were to be used for Microsoft's newly acquired B200 GPUs. Microsoft won the fight and will use its own custom racks that can be adapted to Nvidia's competitor's GPUs if needed, rather than Nvidia's proprietary solution.

Fisker is just a few days into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the fight over its assets is already charged, with one lawyer claiming the startup has been liquidating assets “outside the court’s supervision.” At issue is the relationship between Fisker and its largest secured lender, Heights Capital Management, an affiliate of financial services company […]

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A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale the alleged stolen data from TEG, claiming to have information of 30 million users, including the full name, gender, date of birth, username, hashed passwords, […]

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Elon Musk just convinced Tesla shareholders to approve his $56 billion pay package, making him the highest-paid CEO in history — assuming he can dodge a […]

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Dot is a new AI companion and chatbot that thrives on getting to know your innermost thoughts and feelings.

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The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste carbon streams.

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Gigabyte has announced the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G and the Radeon Pro W7800 AI TOP 32G.

Biwin has an exclusive SSD coming: An ultra high-performance SSD with Maxio's MAP1806 controller and YMTC's 3D NAND memory.

Fisker was facing “potential financial distress” as early as last August, according to a new filing in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, which the EV startup initiated earlier this week. The admission provides a clearer picture of Fisker’s troubles in 2023 as it struggled to ramp up deliveries of its flagship Ocean SUV, despite CEO […]

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Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has agreed to pay a $112,500 fine for failing to provide full information about an accident involving one of its robotaxis last year. The settlement with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) not only avoids litigation, it puts Cruise in a position to restart operations in the state. […]

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Kingpin is reportedly considering making a comeback to the GPU manufacturing scene in a potential partnership with PNY. This would be PNY's first foray into the extreme overclocking scene.

Feel Therapeutics has a pretty original deck, with some twists we rarely see; the company did a great job telling the overall story.

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OpenAI has acquired a company, Rockset, building tools to drive real-time search and data analytics.In a post on its official blog, OpenAI said that it would integrate Rockset’s technology to “power [its] infrastructure across products.” Members of Rockset’s team will join OpenAI, and Rockset’s existing customers will be transitioned off of Rockset’s platform “gradually.” […]

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The U.S. government announced Friday sanctions against twelve executives and senior leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky. In a press release, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it designated the twelve company executives to protect internet users against malicious cyber threats. “Today’s action against the leadership of Kaspersky […]

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Grab the Alienware AW3225QF 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor with 240 Hz refresh rate for $100 off at Dell.

Style DNA, an AI-powered fashion stylist app, creates a personalized style profile from a single selfie. The app is particularly useful for people interested in seasonal color analysis, a process used to determine the best colors to complement an individual’s skin tone. This service can be expensive, with experts charging upwards of $300. However, the […]

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Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts are surging among U.S. teens. A recent report from the Center of Disease Control found that nearly one in three girls have seriously considered suicide, and a significant number, 13% have actually attempted it. Psychologists have various theories about what’s causing adolescent mental health crises.   Some blame the […]

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Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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University researchers are using a Raspberry Pi as the main board behind their bee counting project that relies on AI to monitor overall hive health.

Spotify is introducing a new “Basic” streaming plan in the United States, the company announced on Friday. The new plan costs $10.99 per month and includes all of the benefits of a Premium plan but without the monthly audiobook listening time. The launch of the new streaming plans comes a few weeks after Spotify increased […]

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Thanks to the automated fire suppression systems, onsite response and Taichung firefighters, the high-pressure leak that caused the fire was handled quickly, resulting in minimal damage without affecting the safety of its workers.

Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.

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Website building platform Squarespace is selling Tock, its restaurant reservation service, to American Express in a deal worth $400 million — the exact figure that Squarespace paid for the service three years ago. The news comes shortly after news emerged that private equity giant Permira was taking Squarespace private in a deal worth $6.9 billion […]

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The February ransomware attack on UHG-owned Change Healthcare stands as one of the largest-ever known digital thefts of U.S. medical records.

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Prices have dropped on AMD's Ryzen 8000G series of desktop APUs with integrated graphics, indicating a planned price change ahead of Ryzen 9000's launch on desktops in July.

The Pocket 386 is a retro Windows gaming laptop that you can easily put in your pocket.

Google said today that it is globally pausing its experiment of allowing real-money games on the Play Store, where there was no central body for this kind of app. In January, the company said it would start allowing real-money apps widely in June in India, Brazil, and Mexico. Notably, India has had a pilot program […]

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WD bumps its My Passport gets bumped up to a 6TB top capacity. But the extra terabyte comes with a steep price hike. The drive is thicker than the 5TB model, and of course it's much slower than portable SSDs.

Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the fundraising market’s frost the most, some emerging VCs like A* have enough name recognition, and a good enough track record, to still find success. A*, […]

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Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the fundraising market’s frost the most, some emerging VCs like A* have enough name recognition, and a good enough track record, to still find success. A*, […]

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After claiming to have hacked AMD, Intelbroker says they have hacked Apple too, gaining access to internal tools source code

Google is making all your movie, TV shows, books, albums and game reviews visible under one profile page starting June 24, according to an email sent to users last month. These profiles are also searchable through Google searches, which can lead to users’ being profiled based on their likes and dislikes. The company first launched […]

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Save 10% on Elgato's Stream Deck+ Studio Controller and upgrade your streaming setup to give you more control over your production.

Zepto has more than doubled its valuation to $3.6 billion from $1.4 billion in less than a year in a new funding round of $665 million as the Mumbai-based startup intensifies the quick commerce competition in the world’s second largest internet market. Zepto sells and delivers everything from grocery items to electronic gadgets within 10 […]

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Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.

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SpaceX unveiled Starlink Mini, a more portable version of its satellite internet product that is small enough to fit inside a backpack.  Early Starlink customers were invited to purchase the Starlink Mini kit for $599, according to an invitation sent to customers and viewed by TechCrunch. That’s $100 more than the standard Starlink kit. They […]

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Ali Rathod-Papier has stepped down from her role as global head of compliance at corporate card expense management startup Brex to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a partner and compliance officer, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Rathod-Papier and a16z declined to comment on the move. According to her LinkedIn profile, Rathod-Papier now “oversees a16z’s […]

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U.S. officials imposed the “first of its kind” ban arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security because of its links to Russia.

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Microsoft's latest Windows 11 insider preview completely gets rid of the Copilot keyboard hotkey shortcut in an attempt to steer people towards a Copilot+ PC, which has a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard.

Apple has released Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 and Final Cut Camera, the company announced on Thursday. Both apps were previously announced during the company’s iPad event in May. Apple also released updates for Final Cut Pro for Mac. The iPad version has been updated with capabilities that are designed to take advantage of […]

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Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another big deal is in the works.

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The space industry is all abuzz about how SpaceX’s Starship, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and other heavy-lift rockets will change just about everything. One likely consequence is that spacecraft will get bigger — much bigger — as engineers work outside the constraints of low mass requirements.  There’s one problem: the current testing regime for spacecraft […]

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LTK (formerly LiketoKnow.it and RewardStyle), the influencer shopping app with 40 million monthly users, announced on Thursday the launch of a free direct message tool for creators to instantly share pre-set responses with followers.  The new tool, called LTK DM, is integrated into the posts section of the LTK app. When a creator shares an […]

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YouTube appears to be taking a firm stance against Premium subscribers who attempt to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to access cheaper subscription prices in other countries. This week, a number of users took to Reddit to express their frustration after their Premium plans were canceled for using a VPN to purchase the subscription […]

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I’m back from holiday in Denmark and Germany, where I managed to try just about every kind of transportation, from bikes to scooters, to driving on the […]

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Learn how to extend the .NET Upgrade Assistant by providing mappings for your own libraries and packages.

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TheJiral on Reddit showcases a custom fanless PC.

Microsoft had said Insiders could run Recall, but apparently not yet.

A key body of European Union lawmakers remains stalled over a controversial legislative proposal that could see millions of users of messaging apps forced to agree to their photo and video uploads being scanned by AI to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Critics of the plan — which run the gamut from tech industry […]

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GrayMatter self-reports that its systems currently produce “a 2~4x improvement in production line productivity [and a] 30% or more reduction in consumable waste.”

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Intel is working on bringing Linux display driver functionality to its upcoming Battlemage GPUs. A functional driver will be integrated into Linux 6.11's next kernel cycle.

The delays are not over for Boeing’s Starliner capsule. After years of delays, the aerospace giant finally launched the spacecraft earlier this month, but the two-person crew is currently due to spend more than double the planned amount of time in space due to continuing technical issues on orbit.  On Tuesday, NASA and Boeing officials […]

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CDK said it "does not have an estimated time frame" for recovery, as car dealerships and auto shops face continued outages.

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Instagram is introducing the ability for users to broadcast live to just their Close Friends list, the company announced on Thursday. The new “Close Friends on Live” feature allows users to go live with up to three other people. Instagram says the new feature can be used to share what’s on your mind, spontaneously catch […]

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We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Space Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and AI as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. And we’re excited to share we’ll be hosting a pitch competition this year “The Space Challenge, powered by Aerospace” as part of […]

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Nikkei says TSMC is researching rectangular substrates for advanced chip packaging.

Gynger, a platform that lends capital to companies for technology purchases, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by PayPal Ventures, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The financing brings the New York-based startup’s total venture capital raised to $31.7 million and included participation from Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), Velvet Sea Ventures, […]

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Techtronic3D is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to power his custom candy sorter that automatically drops candy into bins that correspond with their respective colors.

The DEG1 is a great solution for those who need an external graphics card but cannot spare the space for a tower case.

Lightspeed Ventures-backed audio platform Pocket FM just announced that it has partnered with voice cloning company ElevenLabs to quickly convert text content, such as script, into audio series using AI. Pocket FM, which raised $103 million in Series D funding in March, told TechCrunch at the time that it was already experimenting with the ability […]

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it's Anthropic's best-performing model yet — at least on paper.

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SkatterBencher's telemetry tool for the Raspberry Pi brings real-time data logging to our favorite SBC. Data is output to the terminal and logged to CSV for later analysis.

An electrical engineer who designs real-life supercomputers took his love for Cray and built a supercomputer-inspired wristwatch.

As the U.S. Surgeon General is calling for a warning label on social media sites, similar to those found on tobacco products, one startup is launching a set of new tools that put the power to fight app addiction into users’ own hands. Designed for iOS, Roots offers an improvement over traditional screen-time apps by […]

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The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible reason people aren’t as interested in the field is the large amount of drudge work involved: Accountants have to rifle through large amounts of unstructured […]

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Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM for the age AI. Unlike modern CRMs, which are essentially giant spreadsheets that somebody needs to populate and keep updated, Day learns everything about a […]

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Microsoft is continuously working on improvements to make gaming on Windows 11 on Arm possible, ensuring gamers can use Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs for their favorite past time.

Active Directory – the Microsoft directory service for connecting users with network resources – is used by more than 90% of all Fortune 1000 companies and many more besides. So it’s no surprise that it’s a giant target for malicious hackers.  That also means a lot of attention for security companies that are building tools […]

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The Valkyrie VIND SL125 is an anime-themed cooler with fancy packaging, but can it compete with other similarly priced products?

For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford to curtail their e-commerce budgets, but at the same time, e-commerce is more fragmented than ever before. There is a seemingly endless number of avenues to exploit — from […]

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Non-hosted podcasters can now upload videos to Spotify. Over 250K video podcasts are on the platform.

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The global freelancer market, a $1.3 trillion industry fueled by over 200 million knowledge workers, drives demand for solutions that automate payroll and streamline employment and tax regulations worldwide. However, most existing products fail to address the legal landscape of emerging markets, such as differences in employment laws.  This oversight means global hiring platforms, which […]

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AMD has stated that its investigations into an internal network breach show potential data leak is not as damaging as initially suspected or as the alleged attacker claimed.

Amazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. can now access tools designed to improve product listings by generating product descriptions, titles, and associated details. Additionally, sellers can also “enrich” existing product listings by automatically adding missing information. The announcement […]

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Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long government probe over privacy concerns was dropped. Kenya was one of the Worldcoin’s launch countries for its iris-scanning scheme — which the startup was building out as […]

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In time for ramp of Nvidia's and Intel's next-gen products, TSMC is set to increase quotes, according to analysts and media.

Paris-based VC firm Breega is launching a $75 million fund to invest in early-stage startups in Africa, with 70% of the capital already committed at the first close, the firm revealed to TechCrunch. Since entering the VC scene in 2015, Breega has fully raised four funds: a first seed fund (€45 million), a second seed […]

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Malicious hacking is getting increasingly sophisticated, and that’s leading to a very clear trend in security technology. To keep people and organizations safe, security also has  to continue advancing its own complexity.  Security startup PQShield has gotten an early start on that concept with a focus on “post-quantum” cryptography: software and hardware solutions that, in […]

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Hero, a new fintech startup based in Paris, is announcing an €11.3 million all-equity funding round led by Valar Ventures ($12.2 million at today’s exchange rate). For the past couple of years, the company has been quietly building an ambitious banking product for small companies that can essentially replace everything you’d expect from a traditional […]

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Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law firms with an AI platform that they can configure to help other workers in the company. This way, anyone in the company can solicit help with legal […]

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General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley venture capital group, is expanding its presence in India by joining forces with a local venture firm and earmarking more than $500 million for investments in the world’s most populous nation. The U.S. venture capital group is merging with Venture Highway, an India-based firm whose investments include social commerce startup […]

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Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral services like ChatGPT and billions in funding, may have gobbled up the lion’s share of attention and money so far. But according to a new report out from top VC Accel […]

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As memory module and SSD makers have loads of chips in stock, they do not buy ICs on spot market, which is why the spot prices of memory decrease.

C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, the company has been working on a unique process to create quantum computers based on carbon nanotubes. While the concept of […]

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Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, launches Safe Superintelligence (SSI), just a month after leaving OpenAI.

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Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May 2022. Musk posted on X last month that SpaceX holds such sales for employees about […]

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Samsung trademarks the 990 Evo Plus and 9100 Pro with the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS).

The blue Geekom AX8 Mini PC launches with Intel and AMD support, up to 2TB NVMe 4.0 storage and 32 GB RAM in all configurations.

Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on the disinformation front. In a post on Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks recent retractions of academic studies, assistant professors of philosophy Tomasz Żuradzk and Leszek Wroński […]

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Harness the power of Phi-3 SLMs and ONNX for AI-driven .NET applications, showcasing C# integration for advanced tasks like image analysis and interactive Q&A.

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Intel details its 3nm-class process technology: 18% higher performance than 4nm-class, 1.2V support.

Using a 3D printed case, a Raspberry Pi 4B, and a few electronics parts, you too can build your own baby Macintosh Quadra 700.

AMD has updated its ROCm driver/software open-source stack with improved multi-GPU support. Users can now take advantage of up to four qualifying GPUs in a single system for AI workflows.

The T6 ITX case adds wood accents and a moveable wooden handle to make your SFF PC look more elegant and beautiful.

Companies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a working product is proving much more challenging.

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Intel continues to investigate what's causing instability problems with its 13th and 14th Generation CPUs, but is rolling out a fix for one contributing bug.

Here is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy.

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The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco, he’ll be explaining how full-service, vertically integrated space companies will (again) be the big winners of this evolving space economy. Rocket Lab was started […]

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We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.

A gamer-centric gaming laptop from Razer, the Razer Blade 15 is now at its lowest-ever price thanks to a $1,000 discount.

Nikkei says that Micron is set to produce more HBM3E memory in Taiwan, expand R&D operations in the U.S. and even start producing HBM3E memory in Malaysia.

Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale spent around €100 million to acquire Shine. It wasn’t a huge acquisition but it attracted quite a bit of […]

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After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.

As shown during Computex 2024, Fractal Design releases the Mood mini ITX PC case with a pillar case design, accommodating the new 'SFF-ready' Nvidia graphics card standards and fabric exterior.

DeepComputing has built a prototype RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13. It will debut at the RISC-V Summit Europe event next week.

An extra tool for streamers that combines a video capture device with an audio solution and customizable macro pads.

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned acquisition of Juniper Networks.HPE announced plans to acquire Juniper Networks back in January, a deal designed to unify their respective strengths in the networking and IT infrastructure realm, spanning servers, storage, consulting, routing, switching, […]

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Known cybercriminal Intelbroker claims to have breached AMD and got plenty of sensitive information that is now available for sale.

Meta AI removes restrictions in answering election-related queries in India while Google is still restricting them.

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Ask any of the health-focused VCs to name one of the top AI startups and one name comes up over and over again: a company  based in Pittsburgh called Abridge. And it’s a startup that launched before OpenAI was a household name and LLMs entered the common Valley vocabulary.  In 2019, Shiv Rao, a practicing […]

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Cheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be little left for other uses.

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Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. Fisker was outsourcing the manufacturing of its first EV to highly respected automotive supplier Magna, after all. The startup’s November 2022 start-of-production target was aggressive, but not […]

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The agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act.

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Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over the past year.

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Nvidia has passed Microsoft and Apple, becoming the world's most valuable company — as the world needs more and more AI processors.

Bambu Lab tried to put the messy February recall of 12,800 A1 3D printers behind it. But a heavy-handed refund by TikTok Shop – that included perfectly good updated printers – has dragged the ordeal back into the light.

Gigabyte reveals its AI TOP 100E SSD specifications, a drive that caters specifically to AI workloads and is designed to handle years of basically continuous writes with a massive 219,000 TBW rating for the 2TB model — that's 60 drive writes per day or around 17 hours of 2 TB/s writes.

At the Augmented World Expo on Tuesday, Snap teased an early version of its real-time, on-device image diffusion model that can generate vivid AR experiences. The company also unveiled generative AI tools for AR creators. Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy said on-stage that the model is small enough to run on a smartphone and […]

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Mimir IP acquired around 1,500 patents from SK hynix just last month, and has now sued Micron and its partners for patent infringement in a seeming proxy battle. Such tactics are becoming increasingly common in the semiconductor industry.

A researcher has found a bug that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, making phishing attempts look credible and more likely to trick their targets.  As of this writing, the bug has not been patched. To demonstrate the bug, the researcher sent an email to TechCrunch that looked like it was sent from […]

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The next generation of AMD desktop and laptop CPUs are prepping for a seemingly imminent retail launch. Ryzen AI 300 laptops will apparently go on sale July 15, with Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs launching on July 31. We also have some retail price listings for the desktop processors.

Great capacity and reasonable performance at an affordable price, the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB is one of the better budget SSDs.

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at layoffs at BaaS startup Unit and car insurance company Loop, as well as Brex’s decision to abandon its co-CEO model, Apple killing its Pay Later feature, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday […]

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Learn about the latest privacy and security-related updates to Azure Migrate application and code assessment and .NET Upgrade Assistant.

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We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji or, worse, no reaction at all. Seen aims to solve this with its new social app, where friends record a live video reaction to content you send them.  The video […]

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Samsung management recently approved plans to make heavy investments into GPUs. It is unlikely that the investment is going into a new consumer GPU, with likely options being digital twins or computational lithography research to make fabrication more efficient.

Butterflies wants to let users create AI personas that then take on their own lives and coexist with others. 

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Genspark taps generative AI to write custom summaries in response to search queries.

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The first group of Copilot+ PCs, powered by Snapdragon X CPUs, are out today and we're benchmarking them.

Microsoft's Snapdragon X-powered laptops are arriving on store shelves and start shipping out today. These are some of your options if you want to get in on the Copilot+ PC bandwagon.

Apple is continuing its AI push, this time with its education offering. The company announced on Tuesday that it will train all Apple Developer Academy students and mentors on the fundamental of AI. Apple Developer Academy alumni can also take part in the training. Starting this fall, students will learn how to build, train, and […]

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A Swedish startup is working to commercialize carbon fiber that offers not only structural support to a device, but also battery power.

TechCrunch has learned that the arrested hacker is the alleged leader of the group that masterminded the Twilio hacks in 2022.

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Decagon is a generative AI platform that automates various aspects of customer support channels.

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Series A to B startups — check out the ScaleUp Startups Exhibitor Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Why Join the ScaleUp Startups Exhibitor Program? Amplify Your ReachShowcase your groundbreaking innovation on the Disrupt Expo Floor, where you’ll catch the eye of 10,000 tech leaders and investors. This is your moment to shine and forge connections […]

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Pok Pok, a kids app maker focused on building play-based learning experiences for the preschool set, has made a name for itself in the iOS developer community after winning both an App Store award for cultural impact and an Apple Design Award. But now the company is ready to expand its reach by bringing its […]

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When the past slows down the future: TSMC puts building of its AP7 packaging facility on hold due to discovery of ruins of something.

Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together, ranging from tools to let golf courses measure “golfer engagement” to online platforms designed to assess job candidates. While the systems they built had wildly different functions, the unifying thread running through all of them was a dependence on databases […]

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The $200 Beam pro looks like an Android phone, but instead it's a mobile device designed specifically for Xreal’s glasses.

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Being a solo GP hasn’t slowed Bilimoria a bit. He went on to raise three additional funds and has now closed a new fund to invest in biotech, climate and hard tech startups.

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Golf has exploded in popularity in recent years thanks to the pandemic and the popularity of Netflix’s Full Swing documentary series. More than 531 million rounds of golf were played in the U.S. in 2023 alone, according to the National Golf Foundation. Because of this surge in interest, golfers are finding that nabbing a tee […]

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Industry sources say that one of the reasons for the delay of Samsung's Texas fab is that it is considering upgrading it from 4nm to 2nm.

Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and lidars. But some tech companies and startups have built advanced high-resolution radar technology for autonomous vehicles, also known as 4D imaging radar.   Among them is a South Korea-based startup called bitsensing. The […]

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The Halo75 V2 is the kind of evolution you hope for in a sequel — it builds on the original in big ways. Whether you’re looking for solid gaming performance, a great typing experience, or you just love RGB, it has something for everybody.

Balto Energy hopes to speed the electrification by helping homeowners choose and finance the projects that make the most sense for them.

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SewerAI sells cloud-based, AI-powered subscription products designed to streamline field inspections and data management of sewer infrastructure.

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Intel has introduced the latest version 2.3.0 of its Open Image Denoise open-source library. The updated library adds support for the Arc Battlemage graphics processing architecture, as well as upcoming processors codenamed Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake.

CAMM2 and its sleeker laptop version, LPCAMM2, are part of a new memory standard allowing for slimmer, cleaner devices and faster performance.

For the last two decades, Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Waabi, has been developing AI systems that can reason as a human would.  The AI pioneer had previously served as the chief scientist at Uber ATG before launching Waabi in 2021. Waabi launched with an “AI-first approach” to speed up the […]

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Fisker Inc., the EV startup founded by famed designer Henrik Fisker, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection —  a capstone to months of problems with its Ocean SUV that included recalls and dozens of lemon law lawsuits. The California-based company, which filed for bankruptcy in the Delaware Court, had been seeking a deal with another […]

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Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it. In a blog post, Threads engineer Jesse Chen said that with the new API, developers can publish posts, fetch their own content, and deploy reply management tools. That means developers can let users hide/unhide or respond […]

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The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast number of novel structures.”

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Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform.

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Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages, including Hindi. The Gemini mobile app in India is based on Google’s AI Gemini 1.5 Pro and supports nine Indian languages alongside English: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, […]

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Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models.

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Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Consumers in urban cities are embracing the convenience of having groceries delivered to their doorstep in just 10 minutes. The companies making those deliveries – Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy’s Instamart […]

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. We’ll have to wait a little longer for the return of Boeing’s Starliner capsule from the International Space Station — the capsule and its two astronauts will stay at the station for twice as much time as originally planned, to give mission operators additional time to conduct tests […]

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Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company struggles with fundraising.  Henry took to Instagram to post the email his co-founder Carey Nadeau sent to impacted staff on June 16th. Nadeu also posted the letter to LinkedIn. It stated that this was the “absolute […]

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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

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Apple announced at last week's WWDC 2024 that users would be able to access loans through third-party app Affirm through Apple Pay.

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Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating around Earth for nearly twenty years, taking close-up pictures — preliminary to actually deorbiting the object in a future mission. The company released an image captured by its satellite from a distance of just 50 meters […]

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DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, says it’s developing AI tech to generate soundtracks for videos. In a post on its official blog, DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for “video-to-audio”), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle. While plenty of orgs including DeepMind have developed video-generating AI models, these models […]

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The ASRock PG27QFT2A delivers Adaptive-Sync, 180 Hz and smooth gaming from a QHD IPS panel. High performance joins HDR and wide gamut color to create an excellent experience for very little money.

Murex Robotics, a high school robotics team, makes their world's-smallest network switch fully open-source. The move comes as part of their mission to democratize technology.

In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that "Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms."

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Explore opportunities to refactor your C# code with default lambda parameters, a new feature in C# 12.

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Perplexity could already fetch this data from the web and display results in a descriptive way, but the company is adding some visual flair to these results to make them more prominent and quick.

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Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one.

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The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up. On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators, unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its latest AI model for generating video clips from text descriptions and still images. Runway says that Gen-3 delivers a “major” improvement in generation speed and fidelity over […]

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Samsung paves the way for HBM4 integration with its SAINT-D interconnection and packaging technology.

IBM and Japan's AIST are joining forces to create a new quantum computer with 10,000 qubits. This new machine will have 75x more qubits than today's smartest quantum computers, putting it on a track of vastly increased correctness over today's quantum processing.

An old terminal from the early days of France Telecom's Minitel network was rescued from a fire and is being auctioned off as a piece of art.

Following a collapse of a $3 billion IDM project, doubts are growing about the prospects of China's chip industry.

If you want to experience the nostalgia of working on a Macintosh 128K, you can build one for less than the cost of lunch,

YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. If the feature sounds similar, it’s because it follows the same concept as Community Notes on X (formerly Twitter). The Google-owned company says the feature can be used […]

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Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, to create structured cuts of meat.

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TikTok announced on Monday that it’s introducing generative AI avatars of creators and stock actors for branded content and ads on its platform. The company is also launching an “AI Dubbing” tool for creators and brands to expand the reach of their ads and branded content.  The new “Custom Avatars” are designed to represent a […]

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With the advent of generative AI, AI applications are transforming and reshaping various industries and changing how people work. Software development is no exception. San Francisco- and Tokyo-based startup Autify has built an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance to help software engineers complete code quickly, streamline workflows and increase productivity. In other words, […]

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Today’s the day, startup founders. It’s your final opportunity to join Startup Battlefield 200, the world’s preeminent startup competition, at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. It’s your last chance to launch on a global stage like 900+ other Startup Battlefield companies have, including Vurb, Trello, Mint, Dropbox, Yammer, TripIt, Redbeacon, Qwiki, Getaround and Soluto. Startup Battlefield […]

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A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a risk to the future of web security, Meredith Whittaker warned in a public blog post Monday. She’s the president of the not-for-profit foundation behind the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app […]

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Kioxia puts an end to its 3D NAND production cuts that were initiated in October, 2022.

After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google — is now using the deal to expand its user base, and data touchpoints, in SoftBank’s home market. SoftBank and two of its mobile operations, Y!mobile (SoftBank’s mobile phone operator) and LINEMO (SoftBank’s […]

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The world’s first ITX-friendly Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 has arrived, claims China’s Zephyr. An infomercial with details of the new RTX 4070 ITX Sakura Blizzard graphics card was shared by Zephyr this weekend.

When Manny Griffiths worked with a personal injury lawyer after his wife’s car accident, he was surprised by the lack of information and communication from their lawyer regarding their claim. The couple sometimes wouldn’t hear from their lawyer for months and found the entire process to be really opaque. Griffiths dug deeper and learned that […]

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Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps such as ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by transitioning to a new non-profit foundation model. The newly setup Proton Foundation will serve as the main shareholder to the existing corporate entity that is Proton AG, which will continue as a […]

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Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and recently raised a $30 million Series B funding round. According to a source, the company is now valued at $240 million. Originally from Madrid and now also based in New York, […]

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Cadence teases proprietary optical connectivity solution for PCIe 7.0 at 128 GT/s.

Oyo, the Indian budget-hotel chain startup, is finalizing a fresh fundraise of about $100 million to $125 million that slashes its valuation to $2.5 billion, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.  That’s a steep decline in the Gurgaon-headquartered startup’s value, which was worth $10 billion in 2019. The startup, struggling to raise from […]

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A Zillow listing for a $2.4 million "house", really a datacenter in disguise, in Dallas has been found on X, formerly Twitter. If you have corporate data center needs and want to work in a Texas suburb, this listing is for you.

Windows 11 Insider builds suffer from a buggy Service with High CPU usage.

New DNA storage method based on Jurassic Park stores DNA in an amber-like polymer. Unlike previous styles which freeze DNA or embed it in silica, the amber method is easy to embed and extract, and is highly scalable.

ChatGPT, one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence tools, struggles with cultural nuance.

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Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt stage and pitch to a huge audience packed with global tier-1 investors, hundreds of media outlets and plenty of other influential movers and shakers. Cut […]

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The Countering CCP Drones Act, a part of the U.S.'s 2025 annual defense spending act, has passed in the House of Representatives. A successful passage through the Senate in the coming weeks would ban all DJI sales in the U.S.

These are some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we've had the honor of featuring over the last month complete with all the details you need to make something like it yourself at home.

The Clicks keyboard case has arrived, and it’s delightful, if not entirely practical for everyday use — at least, not without weeks of practice. 

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YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Google-owned video service is testing out server-side ad injection with a limited number of users. Essentially, this means that both the ad is injected into the video before it arrives on your device (in contrast to client-side ad […]

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SSH is a great way to securely connect to a remote machine and run commands as if you were there. We can even do it from our Android device, and we show you how!

AMD's range-topping Ryzen AI HX 370 with Radeon 890M graphics offers 20% higher performance compared to its predecessor, rubbing shoulders with some discrete GPUs.

Looking like a gaming PC has been hit with a shrink-ray, this RGB adorned case for the Raspberry Pi 5 will keep your flagship cool under a heavy load.

'I hope you believe in something. Something unconventional, something unexplored. But let it be informed, and let it be reasoned, and dedicate yourself to making that happen.'

The Logitech G Pro X 2 Lightspeed is a well-built, comfortable gaming headset with tri-mode connectivity and decent battery life, but it doesn't do much to stand out against the competition.

Russian ministry began to search for a company that would develop a domestic game console, or at least a Steam Deck analog.

Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of Monday, June 17 and will no longer be accepting new orders. The news doesn’t come completely out of the blue, as Care/of had previously disclosed in a New York Department of Labor filing that it planned to lay […]

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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference had a sizable focus on AI. Apple unveiled its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, which will be available in iOS later this year. iOS 18 will […]

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Cooler Master's long-awaited X Silent power supplies are here with the launch of the 850W unit. With no fan inside, those who buy early will receive $150 off the purchase, plus a curved gaming monitor and 90° 24-pin ATX cable adapter for free.

The AMD RDNA 3 architecture and Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs are the latest and greatest from team red. Here's everything you need to know about the third generation of RDNA graphics cards.

NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope and is calibrating expectations with a supercomputer and the OpenUniverse project.

As Asetek's customers abruptly cancel orders, the company has to withdraw revenue guidance published in March.

No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.

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Recall is still available to Windows Insiders only, who now have a new feature and a new UI to play with.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is currently available at Amazon for just $491 instead of its usual $699.

Perhaps in response to recent announcements from MSI, Asus has revealed what a budget-friendly motherboard for overclocking enthusiasts should be.

Asus released six new GPUs built for SFF cases, from the Asus Prime RTX 4060 Ti to the RTX 4070 Super OC Edition.

There has been a lot of bad news about social media startups lately. Multiple companies, including Twitter alternative Post News, and IRL have shut down. And ShareChat’s valuation has dropped more than 50% after a recent funding round. But amid the negative headlines, the recent exit of French social network BeReal looks like a bright […]

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After upgrading or updating Windows, you’ll reboot into a black screen. Here’s what to do if that happens.

XFX has now introduced the 'Mercury MagAir' and 'QickSilver MagAir' series via X, showing one of the key features being the swappable fans for its AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT graphics cards.

OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.

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There are many ways that PC vendors are defining an AI PC. Here's how to cut through the noise (and figure out if you need one).

iBUYPOWER has a range of deals on their RDY prebuilt gaming PCs for Father's Day. Add one of our coupon offers for an even bigger savings.

The Clevetura CLVX 1 is a truly innovative keyboard. Combining intuitive and customizable capacitive touch controls, it pulls double duty as both a mouse and keyboard. You’ll need to like scissor switches, but if you do, it’s surprisingly great.

Class action attorneys call Intel investors to sue the company over not properly disclosing losses generated by the manufacturing division.

Raspberry Pi’s latest board isn’t for everyone, starting at $25 and only available in 200 or 1000 unit purchases, the Compute Module 4S is made for industry.

An ancient text-based video game, Lunar Landing, has finally been found to have a bug after almost six decades.

Researchers determine that only players, not supercomputers, can truly determine whether or not the most challenging Mario levels can actually be overcome.

FTC Chair Lina Khan was the youngest person appointed to her position when she assumed the job in 2021. But once her term ends in September –  after which she’ll stay until a successor is named – her age might be the last thing that people remember about her reign at the agency. It’s more […]

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Contrary to media reports, Intel hasn't discovered the cause of the instability affecting 13th and 14th Generation Core i9 processors.

Satellite imagery startup Albedo is preparing for its up close and personal debut. Albedo’s first satellite will take to orbit next spring as the company looks to turn the commercial Earth observation industry upside down with its novel approach and ultra-high resolution cameras.  The satellite, called Clarity, will hitch a ride to very low Earth […]

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Tempus, a genomic testing and data analysis company started by Eric Lefkosky, who previously founded Groupon, debuted on Nasdaq on Friday, rose about 15% on the opening  The company priced its IPO on Thursday at $37 apiece, at the top of its $35 to $37 price range, raising nearly $411 million at a fully-diluted valuation […]

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The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized […]

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Hold on to your Apple Watches, folks! At WWDC 2024, Apple finally decided to give Siri a brain transplant with something they’re calling “Apple Intelligence” (AI—get […]

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Hardware enthusiast shows off the EVGA X670E Classified motherboard, a prototype that recently surfaced in the Chinese second-hand market.

The Lofree Edge is a thin, lightweight low-profile mechanical keyboard that sounds very good but isn't otherwise impressive.

The size of two monitors merged into just one single OLED screen, the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED has $600 knocked off of its MSRP.

Framework doesn't use AI branding, even though the chips on its laptops are capable of handling some AI processes.

How well did the company do tell its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let's take a look.

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The over 3.8 million GPUs sold last year has the power requirement of 1.3 million homes in a year, or about 7% of California's annual electricity output.

AMD Ryzen AI 300-powered laptops do not get the Copilot+ PC certification at launch. Users will get Windows' AI features later this year via Windows Update.

The Browser Company’s Arc, a web browser that aims to have a less cluttered user interface, launched a “Live Calendar” feature to ensure you never miss a call or run late to a meeting. The feature rolled out yesterday on Mac and is available in the latest Arc update with version 1.47.1. The new feature […]

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AMD has a new patent that shows a three-die GPU. Next-generation graphics processors could adopt more complex chiplet designs.

Meta has confirmed that it will pause plans to start training its AI systems using data from its users in the European Union (EU) and U.K. The move follows pushback from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta’s lead regulator in the EU, which is acting on behalf of several data protection authorities (DPAs) across […]

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Lexar's SL500 and Professional SL600 do well on most of our tests. But our sustained write testing shows better-performing options are available at lower prices.

Despite more than a year of warning, many Minecraft owners didn't upgrade their accounts to Microsoft accounts. As a result, they've lost access to a game they paid for.

PCI-SIG delays conformity tests for PCIe 6.0 and PCIe 7.0, which could slowdown adoption of these technologies.

A woman arriving in mainland China from Hong Kong was found to have 350 Nintendo Switch game cartridges stuffed into her bra.

XFX shared a picture in X, showing the ability to swap fans on its graphics card, giving the ability to use aftermarket fans with different colours and LED options, as it did with the Nitro Gear series.

Only 20% of China's chipmaking tools are domestically made, putting the country at the mercy of external forces.

The Elbrus-2S3 processor is being used to power a Raspberry Pi 5 competitor from Russian state agency Rostec. The problem? The Elbrus-2S3 hasn't been produced since 2022 when Taiwan sanctioned Russia.

Privacy-focused search engine and web browser company Brave is integrating search results into its Leo chatbot. Search results are based on the Brave Search API and Leo is integrated into the company’s browser. The company said that this integration will help users find more up-to-date information. People can use this integration to fetch information like […]

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SK Hynix retracts comments made by booth rep, claims its GDDR7 memory is on track for mass production in Q4 this year.

For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn’t isolate its active ingredient until the 1800s and eventually patented its modified version as Aspirin. Aspirin is just one example of a medicine derived from natural sources. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that around 40% of […]

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This is the second time Microsoft has back-tracked on Recall.

A Reddit user who got his hands on the newest Samsung Copilot+ PC early posted benchmarks, and the results are incredibly disappointing. The CPU clock speeds on the unit are locked to 2.5 GHz, much slower than the advertised 4.0 GHz boost.

We could be entering a renaissance for human spaceflight research, as a record number of private citizens head to space — and as scientists improve techniques for gathering data on these intrepid test subjects.  A sign that the renaissance is imminent appeared earlier this week, when the journal Nature published a cache of papers detailing […]

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The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for its customers and possibly humanity.

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Spiritual_Aside_7859 uses a Raspberry Pi to power a stuffed koala bear assistant that uses ChatGPT to talk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has secured enough shareholder votes to have his 2018 stock option compensation package approved. Shareholders also approved the company’s decision to re-incorporate of Tesla in Texas, moving it away from the state where Musk’s pay package was struck down: Delaware.  Shareholders present at the company’s annual meeting Thursday, held at Tesla’s […]

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